Lansing Heppe Bennett ’48

LANCE BENNETT died Jan. 25, 1993, the victim of a random, wanton, tragic shooting at the entrance to the C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va. He had joined the agency in 1991 as a physician keeping track of the health of foreign leaders.

Lance joined us by way of Mercersberg Academy and roomed with Bill Holzwarth for four years (with a hiatus for Marine Corps service). They were joined by Nick Ifft in due course and became deft at dispensing hospitality from Little Hall, while not gracing Cannon. The Bennetts, Iffts, and Holzwarths (joined by Becky and Hank Hurt) had an annual summer minireunion on the Henry's Fork of the Snake River in Idaho.

Following Princeton, Lance took his medical degree at Jefferson in Philadelphia and, after a detour to Korea, practiced in Duxbury, Mass., until 1980, when he joined the State Dept. as regional medical officer in Indonesia. Lance, as was his whimsical way, provided sheet music of Princeton songs for a student marching band "that plays daily and sometimes together in front of the mosque next to my office." Subsequently, he worked for the Army as a medical officer in Frankfurt, Dar es Salaam, and Rio de Janeiro.

Lance was a great sailor and for years delighted in cruising the New England coast on his yawl WIND CHIMES. He was always active in conservation and was a longtime Nature Conservancy member. His father was in the Class of 1922.

To his widow, Inga, and his four children from a previous marriage, Hollis, Susan, Mark, and Andrew, the Class extends its deepest sympathy and shares in their grief and loss,

The Class of 1948